Rescue vessels return from a search-and-rescue effort

AP/Mark Lennihan

A flotilla of U.S. Coast Guard and other rescue vessels return to the Coast Guard station in East Moriches, N.Y., at dawn on July 18, 1996. They had participated in a search-and-rescue effort for survivors from the TWA plane that exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean about 10 miles south of this Long Island hamlet.

A flotilla of U.S. Coast Guard and other rescue vessels return to the Coast Guard station in East Moriches, N.Y., at dawn on July 18, 1996. They had participated in a search-and-rescue effort for survivors from the TWA plane that exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean about 10 miles south of this Long Island hamlet. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

A flotilla of U.S. Coast Guard and other rescue vessels return to the Coast Guard station in East Moriches, N.Y., at dawn on July 18, 1996. They had participated in a search-and-rescue effort for survivors from the TWA plane that exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean about 10 miles south of this Long Island hamlet.